Season 4, Episode 1 - 30 Days Without an Accident [Spoilers]

briany wrote: »

Maybe you're just supposing, for argument's sake, but you do see people around the Internet quite seriously postulating on how zombies 'work'. I don't see why as their function is not to be realistic but to provide an existential threat. If your central nervous system rots away, you cannot move. If you don't have a working circulatory system transferring blood and oxygen to the muscles, you cannot move. If you don't eat, you don't have any energy and you cannot move. Everything we know about biology/physics tells us that the Hollywood vision of the flesh eating zombie, horribly decomposed but somehow still walking and biting better than ever is an impossible fantasy and that's exactly all it need be.

Dont forget that they can bite cleanly through denim!

NufcNavan wrote: »

Thought the scene in the supermarket was done poorly. The effects looked cheap.


And it was a bit daft really. I mean surely if the roof was that shoddy then the walkers would have fell through long before they arrived in the supermarket.

I think the idea was that D'angelo 'Stooky' Barksdale knocking over the wine shelf was meant to have drawn the zombies to the area of the roof already weakened by the crashed helicopter. Which would have been fine if they didn't then have them raining down from every corner of the supermarket weakened roof or not as the plot demanded.

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Could the new guy have anything to do with Millhouse? He was a medic in the army, the woman was suspicious of him and didn't want to bring him on the run and you don't really get a feel for who he is. He was the last person they had close ups of before they showed Millhouse. Something they will develop or just my overactive imagination?

They clearly have plans for Stooky but based on his eying up of the booze shelf in the supermarket it has more to do with his alcoholism then infecting Simpson characters for kicks, that moment at the end was him contemplating his demons imo, the fact that it precedes Millhouse shower scene is coincidental.

Really enjoyed that opener. Love how there is a larger community of people now and that there are plenty of badasses around now. The group was too small in the past two years with only Rick & Daryl as the two you count on to kick ass. The show feels more solid with this new, larger group. I like the renovations too, shows that they are actually building a life in the prison.

One thing that particularly piqued my interest was that guy who played D'Angelo in The Wire. He's a wild card. New to the group, seems to have some alcohol problem or some other disturbing issues. They seemed to focus a bit on him having some sort of internal struggle with himself. Will be interesting to see where that leads.

I really enjoyed the whole shop scene. Realistic? No, but it was fun to watch zombies raining from above and getting taken out in increasingly gross ways It was quite tense too cause you knew someone had to die but I quite liked all the characters we'd been introduced too, something that the show hasn't ever achieved before IMO. Yer man was the obvious red shirt though and I liked how the girl (even before the group went out) kept herself emotionally detached. It's just how the world is now.

Rick's walk was well done too. Quite high in the tension stakes, constantly thinking it might be a trap. It was well played out despite the OTT Irish accent (I don't get how they can cast a girl from Tipp and get her to put THAT accent on instead of just using her own accent... I imagine she was told to "add more leprechaun to the accent").

The next episode is set up nicely too, I just hope they don't decimate the group so soon.

Bob is not a former Woodbury resident no

It wasnt a bad opener as such and it kept my attention with all the new prison features, the new people (Carl sadly seems to have shaken off his potentially hard character to become another typical kid), and the life they now live. Very interesting ending there, has the virus now taken affect from within somehow and is killing people that way, I also noticed the big deal they made of Daryl shaking hands with the kid.

The supermarket scene was also very impressive, nice special effects. The zombies seem to be very different looking in the new season more aggressive and with half their faces gone, but that could just be a filler to make up for lack of plot time will tell. Did anyone else think the Irish woman was a walker. I did, for her entire time on screen. Some walkers looked better than her!

Where did the pigs come from? Not one mention of surviving wildstock in 2 seasons and all of a sudden there are horses and pigs providing food for the camp, a bit out of nowhere with no explanation plus we could do without the happy families bit from the new people and the tweens. I hope they move from the prison soon as that ship really has sailed- setting the entire season 4 in the prison would be it for me, I would have to give up. I know it makes sense to stay there, it being so secure and all but it makes for a very boring season of tv..

Just on the virus..Kirkman said what it is in an interview. It's here if you care to know;

http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/robert-kirkman-and-greg-nicotero-the-walking-dead-premiere-interview.html